Since 06/2014 Curator of Herpetology at the Alexander Koenig Research Museum, Bonn, Germany (ZFMK).
02/2014 Dissertation Defense at the Alexander Koenig Research Museum, Bonn, Germany. (Mark "magna cum laude", Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme)
04/2008-02/2014 Dissertation at the Alexander Koenig Research Museum, Bonn, Germany. Subject of the Doctoral thesis: „The Herpetofauna of the Peruvian dry forest along the Andean valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries, with a focus on endemic iguanians, geckos and tegus (Squamata: Iguanidae, Phyllodactylidae, Teiidae).”
03/2006 Granting of a Diploma in Biology (Mark: „very good", Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme)
06/2005-03/2006 Diploma Thesis at the Alexander Koenig Research Museum, Bonn, Germany. Subject: „The amphibians and reptiles of the Tumbesian dry forest region of Northern Peru.”
10/2000- 03/2006 Studies of Biology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, Bonn, Germany. Major subjects: Zoology, Palaeontology, Geography
05/2000 Gymnasium am Ölberg, Königswinter-Oberpleis (University-entrance diploma)